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History Suggests That Entitlement Era Is Winding Down

Rick 2811 Wrote: Jan 14, 2013 7:18 AM

The welfare state can't be sustained...can't be afforded...will run out of money, so we'll have to drastically change it or the country itself. There are some excellent points made in this hypothesis about the changing climates in America. The main one being when something is bad or wrong or unsustainable, we change it ! Slavery, need for unions, too many laws and regulations, too many taxes and so forth. The great thing about the welfare state is that it's not sustainable so it can't last on its own. Like we changed many other wrongs discovered, we'll change the welfare state as well...we have to or disappear from the liberty, freedom-loving and very prosperous country we once were. We'll change, we are not going away...we'll repair !!

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History Suggests That Entitlement Era Is Winding Down

It's often good fun and sometimes revealing to divide American history into distinct periods of uniform length. In working on my forthcoming book on American migrations, internal and immigrant, it occurred to me that you could do this using the American-sounding interval of 76 years, just a few years more than the Biblical lifespan of three score and 10.

It was 76 years from Washington's First Inaugural in 1789 to Lincoln's Second Inaugural in 1865. It was 76 years from the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865 to the attack at Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Going backward, it was 76 years...

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